EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION:Implementing Regulations: PART II - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART II OF THE CONVENTION, Chapter VI - Biotechnological inventions, Rule 23c

Rule 23c - Patentable biotechnological inventions

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Table of Contents

Preface

European Patent Convention

Implementing Regulations

Protocol on Recognition

Protocol on Centralisation

Protocol on Privileges and Immunities

Protocol on the Staff Complement

Rules Relating to Fees

Annex I

Annex II

Alphabetical keyword index

EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION- Table of Contents

Implementing Regulations

PART II - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART II OF THE CONVENTION

PART I - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART I OF THE CONVENTION

PART III - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART III OF THE CONVENTION

Chapter VI - Biotechnological inventions

Chapter I - Filing of the European patent application

Rule 23c - Patentable biotechnological inventions

Rule 23c

Patentable biotechnological inventions

Biotechnological inventions shall also be patentable if they concern:

(a) biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process even if it previously occurred in nature;

(b) plants or animals if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety;

(c) a microbiological or other technical process, or a product obtained by means of such a process other than a plant or animal variety.

Art. 52